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It’s not uncommon for adults (of which I suppose I’m one) to look at youngsters and shake their head in amazement at the callow decisions of youth. But I’m of the opinion that “youth is wasted on the young” is not but so much detritus. What is youth if it is not wasted to some [...] My dad has never been that big on celebrating his own birthday. Perhaps it’s because he has two birthdays – one on his passport, the other that his mother swore he was born on. Actually, he felt that the birthdays of the the greats should be celebrated. Though he never failed to celebrate our birthdays, [...] It’s a common lament that people read less today than in years past. In a recent Roger Ebert column, he quotes that the average American teenager spends 17 minutes/weekend in voluntary reading. Perhaps, as Ebert contends, this statistic only includes “serious” novels whereas all manner of reading should be counted. I think averages such as [...] 
There’s a passage in Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible that describes how one of the preacher’s daughters eventually fell for and married an African revolutionary, how she worked hard to support him in Zaire and Angola and other places so far removed from her native Georgia. I have in my mind’s eye, a pretty young [...] I was thinking about the idea of reform the other day. And how one can really judge whether a criminal (or a certain Steelers’ QB) can be judged to have changed after punishment is meted out. Is he reformed? Has she really changed? Or is he really still a jerk or a deviant at heart? [...] The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence, you may murder the liar, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. So it goes. Returning violence for violence multiples violence, [...] I was at the deli section in the grocery store last night to buy some lunch meats and swiss cheese when the old lady behind the counter exclaimed, “Oh thank God that you like cheese!” When I gave her a confused look, she continued, “Well because many ethnic people don’t like cheese.” I was a [...] A quick thought about Avatar… Wasn’t the evil corporation in Avatar missing a huge potential profit center by ignoring the ways in which the Nav’i uploaded and downloaded information thru their network of trees? We’re essentially talking about organic computers, aren’t we. The information techmology possibilities are staggering, to say the least. It makes my [...] One of the more interesting sites in my commute to work everyday from the suburbs to downtown Pittsburgh is passing through Wilkinsburg. Like other parts of Pittsburgh, it is a study in contrasts. There are parts of it that are certainly depressed; the store-fronts are rundown or closed. The houses are boarded up and dilapidated. [...] While watching the Oscars on Sunday, I was struck by the obvious passion of and ridicule engendered by actors and those in the film industry. They dream all their lives of winning an Oscar and when the moment comes, many get blubbery, fumble with their speeches, take too much time and then get cut off [...] |
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